Logic Express 7.0 And Quantize And Automation. Options

[nigelgjones]

Hi, I was wondering if anybody could help me here.

I am a semi professional singer songwriter with a new album.

I recently purchased Logic Express 7.0 after cutting my teeth with Garageband, and think its great.

I am slowly working my way around the program and have already finished one song.

However my next project has a difficult syncopated rhythm guitar part throughout and after a dozen or so takes I manged to get a half decent cut.

I understand there is quantization in Logic and have used this with some success in garageband. However for the life of me I can't find it anywhere despite reading and re-reading the manual.

It says there is a Q button in the peripherals, but it's not there. On some midi and instrument tracks a Quantization menu appears at the top of the peripherals window but not in an audio region. As for the Q button I just can't find it.

Also, after successfully mixing a song in the mixer then adding some manual fades at the end makes it sems impossible to re-adjust the sound again, without it reverting to a fixed automated volume. I have to clear all automation info and start again.

Whew, it's a learning curve alright but it is brilliant.

Any experts out there I would love to hear from you.

Please out my website: www.nigelgjones.co.uk

Regards

Nigel

[nigelgjones]

Thanks for those tips Riverdog, the difference between audio and midi is clearer to me now.

Bus tracks, read, write and latch etc are still puzzling me, but I guess I'll sort it out eventually.

I'm not sure the what the main differeces are between Pro and Express, I think it's pretty much all there as far as tools go. It would be interesting to find out actually.

Do you record your own music or produce other peoples?

Nigelgjones